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001 2012454444
003 DLC
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008 121023s2012 gw b 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2012454444
020 $a9783631633946
020 $a3631633947
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn810120076
040 $aBTCTA$beng$cBTCTA$erda$dYDXCP$dIUL$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aLC1090$b.B78 2012
100 1 $aBunnell, Tristan
245 10 $aGlobal education under attack :$bInternational Baccalaureate in America /$cTristan Bunnell.
264 1 $aFrankfurt am Main :$bPeter Lang,$c[2012]
300 $a157 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 133-157).
520 8 $aThe three main programmes of the Geneva-registered International Baccalaureate (IB) have grown enormously since the 1990s and have seemingly found their "home" in the United States. However, the IB has provoked opposition, initially from concerned parents, and lately by conservative agencies. This book charts the growth of the IB in America and offers a set of frameworks for conceptualizing the history and nature of this attack. It explores the distinctly paleo-conservative philosophy behind this attack, and reveals the influence of the American historian Russell Kirk, alongside Edmund Burke. The book examines the notion that the IB is un-American, and concludes that for some people in America global education is fundamentally unnatural and must be resisted.
650 0 $aInternational baccalaureate.
650 0 $aInternational education$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEducation and globalization$xPolitical aspects.